SITE OUT OF MIND

About

The Woltz Symposium addresses interdisciplinary topics related to the city, in particular the dialogue between architecture and landscape architecture in conceiving of and constructing the public realm. “Site out of mind” will examine the gaps, thresholds and hybrid conditions - aesthetic, social, environmental, ethical and disciplinary - that are developing between architecture and landscape architecture, said assistant professor and organizer Phoebe Crisman. “This topic is of particular interest to U.Va. architecture school faculty and students who recently combined the previously distinct departments of architecture and landscape architecture into one joint department.” In for sessions cross two days, panelists and audience members will discuss features that pervade North American cities, but are rarely recognized or tackled by designers: edges between one thing and another resulting from a collision between scales and uses; leftover spaces under, over and along elevated highways; railway lines and other immense infrastructural elements; or large urban voids and ruined places.

Speakers / Guests:

Sebastien Marot, critic, theoretician and editor of “Le Visiteur”Martha Rosler, a multimedia artist, critic, theorist, teacher and art-world provocateurMichael Sorkin, architect, author of numerous articles and books, former architecture critic for The Village Voice and professor of architecture at the City College of New York